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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are sentences left incomplete in "Declaration"?
(a) To show the confusion of the speaker.
(b) To reveal how the lives of the characters are incomplete.
(c) To leave it to the reader to fill in the blank of what has been stolen or destroyed.
(d) To confuse the reader.

2. In “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,” a slave asks President Lincoln advise on how to leave his mistress. Why?
(a) He does not want to offend his mistress.
(b) He feels guilty leaving his mistress.
(c) His mistress refuses to let him go.
(d) He does not have the means to leave.

3. As the speaker in "The Angels" slept, she feels what sense?
(a) Warmth and comfort.
(b) Love and safety.
(c) Panic and anxiety.
(d) Nothing.

4. How does "Ghazal" end?
(a) What is in a name?
(b) Our name our name our name our fraught, fraught name.
(c) Say my name! Say my name!
(d) Oh what a beautiful thing it is to have a name.

5. In Stanza 5 of "The Greatest Personal Privation," what happened time and time again?
(a) Slaves were freed from bondage.
(b) Male slaves were regularly sold.
(c) Slave owners freed their slaves.
(d) Families were cut apart quickly and without warning.

Short Answer Questions

1. The character in "Hill Country" leaves the stack of worn planks outside where?

2. What happens to the sick child who was removed from the camp with his family in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?

3. The character in "Hill Country" comes down the road in his jeep with the windows rolled down. Why?

4. When the speaker of "The Angels" reflects on what it must be like to be an angel, about what does she think?

5. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," if these people turn out to be evil, then the speaker and others like her will meet this evil how?

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